Peter Donders
Dutch Roman Catholic missionary (1809-1887) · Netherlands · On the map · Religious Figures · Died at 77
Petrus Norbertus Donders was a Dutch Roman Catholic priest and member of the Redemptorists. He served in various missions in the Dutch colony of Surinam. He started working in the capital Paramaribo, but is predominantly known for his work in and around the leper colony Batavia, where he died in 1887.
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Peter Donders was beatified as 'Apostle of the Indians and Lepers' in 1982. The miracle needed for his beatification was found in the cure of a Dutch child from bone cancer back in 1929.
